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face recognition

DEFINITIONS OF: face recognition

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n the visual perception of familiar faces

Type of:
beholding, seeing, visual perception
perception by means of the eyes

n biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces

“they used face recognition to spot known terrorists”
Synonyms:
automatic face recognition, facial recognition
Type of:
biometric authentication, biometric identification, identity verification
the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics
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